Villa Aurora Events Archive
December 2016
Manfred Flügge
Berlin
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Escape from France
The Americans who saved Marta and Lion Feuchtwanger
Following an adventurous escape from German-occupied France, the Jewish-German writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta, were able to escape to the US in the autumn of 1940. This was only made possible through the efforts of their American rescuers Varian Fry, Hiram Bingham, as well as Martha and Waitstill Sharp. They broke rules and risked their positions and their lives. During the 1930s and 40s in France, their heroic actions saved countless lives.
In a bilingual publication written for Villa Aurora, which was the Feuchtwanger’s exile home and later reopened as an artist recidence, Manfred Flügge, author and former Villa Fellow, traces the story of Marta and Lion Feuchtwanger’s escape. On Tuesday, December 6th at 8 p.m., Manfred Flügge will present his book along with photographs and filmsequences in the Literaturhaus, Fasanenstraße in Berlin.
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Manfred Flügge was born in 1946. He grew up in the Ruhr Valley and studied Romance languages and history in Muenster and in Lille. He tought at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1976 until 1988. Manfred Flügge works and lives in Berlin.
Performance Lab #3
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Feuchtwanger Refreshed #3
USC's MFA students and professors in Dramatic Writing are once more bringing new life to the work of Lion Feuchtwanger, this time writing 1-5 minute scenes inspired by Feuchtwanger's famous 1933 letter to the Nazi occupant of his confiscated Berlin home. Four actors will perform the plays in the same living space where Feuchtwanger once held readings of his own work.
All are welcome.
Michael Fehr
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Michael Fehr (*1982, Bern, Switzerland) is a stage maverick. In his performances, he transforms words into sound and stories into music, until the point of redemption. Each of his performances is a unique experience that cannot be recreated. The Bern based lyricist, writer and musician was recently awarded the renowned Kelag prize at the Ingeborg-Bachman-Competition. In 2015, he won the Bayern2-Wortspiele-Preis, which awarded him a one-month fellowship at Villa Aurora. His live cantations of sound and poetry will be accompanied by guitarist Manuel Troller (excerpt from: Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich).
Manuel Troller (*1986, Lucerne, Switzerland), guitarist and composer, is actively working in diverse musical genres. Since 2006, he plays and composes with the internationally active Band Schnellertollermeier – who plays music without compromises, ranging from free improvisation, Hardcore-Jazz, modern composition to brute rock music – but feels just as home in Pop.